Former Liverpool and Manchester United star Paul Ince has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £7, 085 ($9, 524) after a drink-driving offence.
Ince admitted driving his black Range Rover while over the limit on June 28 in Cheshire.
The ex-England captain had a reading of 49 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when he was stopped by police, Chester Magistrates court heard on Friday.
Nigel Jones, prosecuting, said: “On the day in question, the defendant was witnessed by an off-duty police officer driving a vehicle perceived to be swerving across the road”.
He said the 57-year-old’s car swerved across the central reservation, hitting bollards and causing two tyres to burst.
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Frank Rogers, defending Ince, said: “My client finds himself today facing the huge impact of a ban, but he accepts he only has himself to blame for that.
” He misjudged the fact he believed at the time he would be under the limit. “
Rogers said Ince had been at Heswall Golf Club and had not eaten before having two drinks in the clubhouse.
” He felt fine to drive, of course, we now know that he shouldn’t have done, “Rogers said.
District Judge Jack McGarva told Ince:” The message has got to be if you’re going to drive, you don’t drink at all. “
Ince, who also played for Inter Milan and West Ham, earned 53 caps for England, winning two Premier League titles among a host of trophies during his six years as a United midfielder.
He moved into management after retiring, with his most recent spell in charge at Reading ending in 2023.
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